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The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 125

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NO DOWN PAYMENT 8'xlO' ALUMINUM PATIO AWNING CHOICE Or 1 A decorator counts a 159 2 ILKK UTIN This motley assortment of "people" is TV's "Addams Family." nintH mn cmuHHt NO DOWN PAYMENT INSTALLED $3.35 Per Month Including Life Inturance Here's What We Do and We Do if WeIf (J Fll 1 II ai iTJ Kildwn FWMCM ktkroom Storm Dion tooling Gerogei loo Mditiom Dormers Jolousio EikImwm Aluminum Awnings Something For The Doys And Ghouls Aluminum Sidtnoj Storm Window By Erskine Johnson Written For TV Graphic Is your boss stupid? Well trained beginner computer programmers earn around $5,000 according to the U. S. Department of Labor. Many earn $8,000, $10,000, $12,000 and more. You can get the finest computer programming training here in Pittsburgh from the Computer Systems Institute, Pittsburgh's first school for the exclusive training of programmers.

Call 261-6110 or send the coupon and we'll arrange for you to take the free Programmer's Aptitude Test. It really can spot your abilities, and you may be on your way to a bright new future where all the bosses are smart. Do you feel you're not getting anywhere in your job because your boss is too thick to recognize your ability? Hold on. Maybe your boss is a very bright man. Maybe he recognizes that you are not making any outstanding contributions that would qualify you for advancement.

You could be in a dead-end job at the age of 22 The answer for thousands of men and women is training, training in a profession that is growing rapidly, a profession in which there is a shortage of qualified people, a profession like computer programming. TV program chief is a man who does not believe in taking risky chances. He wears both belt and suspenders on his trousers. Yet "risky" is the word you hear in other quarters about the project of turning Addams' ghouls into a home screen family and giving them, as Levy promises, "the same problems of a typical American family." To this talk he shrugs: "I believe viewers will identify with the characters because people usually like to think they are different. No, we won't try to explain their ghoulish appearances.

The bizarre quality comes only from the way they live, in high luxury." Oddly, cartoonist Addams never named Hits macabre characters. This he has now done for the TV show with Carolyn Jones starred as the slinky lady in black, Morti-cia. Her husband will be Gomez (John Astin). Their children will answer to the names of Wednesday and Pugsley. Lurch (played by Ted Cassidy, an ex-Dallas radio announcer) will be their 6-foot-9-inch butler.

Jackie Coogan will be around as Uncle Fester and Blossom Rock (who beat Addams to a tricky name) will be. Granny. CHARLES ADDAMS' macabre cartoon characters from the slick pages of the sophisticated New Yorker magazine are coming to life this fall on ABC television screens. The idea Is being viewed by many programming experts as both hazardous and delicate. David Levy, the man behind it all, admits to the delicacy of his task as the executive producer of "The Addams Family" but hazardous is a word he refuses to buy.

He is confident the characters will be a hit, as popular in the mass medium of television as they have been for the last 30 years on the pages of The New Yorker. "We have made them full-bodied people, not monsters," he explains. "They are not grotesque and hideous manifestations. I'll admit that they are rather weird. At the same time we are protecting the images of Mr.

Addams' 'children' as he refers to them. We are living up to the spirit of his cartoons. He is more than just a cartoonist He's a social commentator and a great wit" As David Levy talks about the project, two years in the building, he sits coatless behind his desk and you notice that this former NBQ- QyQ) C0MPUTER SYSTEMS INSTITUTE Suite 350 300 Sixth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pa. 15222 Is Name. Address.

City 0 Zip Code. -Age Telephone. 1VGSJ The Pittsburgh Press, Sunday, August 2, 1964 TV Page 5.

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